"What you need is an idea."

Lear, William P. on ideas   

"There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around."

Oakley, Ann on women   

"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the best of us walk about well wadded with stupidity."

Eliot, George on sensitivity
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"Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind."

Maharshi, Ramana on limitation
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"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."

Link, Henry C. on mistakes
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"I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it."

Twain, Mark on sarcasm
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"Aggression, the writer's main source of energy."

Solotaroff, Ted on aggression   

"The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers."

Koestler, Arthur on genius
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"Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on books - reading   

"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration."

Allen, James on greatness
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"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."

Ward, William A. on teacher
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"We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities."

Maritain, Jacques on character
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"A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark."

Dante Alighieri on things and little things
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"We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making."

Pearce, Joseph Chilton on environment   

"Never pray for justice, because you might get some."

Atwood, Margaret on justice   

"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others."

Twain, Mark on genius
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"When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on thoughts and thinking
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"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."

Cocteau, Jean on mystery
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"Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely."

Basta on women
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"We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it."

Whorf, Benjamin Lee on language
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"Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad."

Roux, Joseph on conflict
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"Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on contradiction
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"When a man lies, he murders some part of the world."

Merlin on lies and lying
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"Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free."

Loos, Anita on pleasure   

"A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations."

Murray, William on books - reading   

"There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue."

Goldsmith, Oliver on faults   

"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going."

Williams, Tennessee on memory
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"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."

Sarraute, Nathalie on suspicion   

"The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles."

Baruch, Bernard M. on life
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"So free we seem, so fettered we are!"

Browning, Robert on freedom
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"Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it."

Valentine, Alan on evil
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"I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."

Bankhead, Tallulah on mistakes
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"The passion for destruction is also a creative passion."

Bakunin, Mikhail on destructiveness
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"It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference."

Bryant, Bear on winners and winning
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"The power of thought, the magic of the mind."

Byron, Lord on thoughts and thinking
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"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed."

Howard, Curly on perseverance
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"Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater."

Epictetus on discipline
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"Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat."

Lebowitz, Fran on food and eating   

"The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself."

Bloom, Allan on colleges and universities
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"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on age and aging
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